From Oracle to GaussDB Primary/Standby
Supported Source and Destination Databases
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Prerequisites
- You have logged in to the DRS console.
- Your account balance is greater than or equal to $0 USD.
- For details about the DB types and versions supported by real-time synchronization, see Supported Databases.
- If a subaccount is used to create a DRS task, ensure that an agency has been added. To create an agency, see Agency Management.
Suggestions
- When a task is being started or in the full synchronization phase, do not perform DDL operations on the source database. Otherwise, the task may be abnormal.
- To keep data consistency before and after the synchronization, ensure that no data is written to the destination database during the synchronization.
- The success of database synchronization depends on environment and manual operations. To ensure a smooth synchronization, perform a synchronization trial before you start the synchronization to help you detect and resolve problems in advance.
- Start your synchronization task during off-peak hours. A less active database is easier to synchronize successfully. If the data is fairly static, there is less likely to be any severe performance impacts during the synchronization.
- If network bandwidth is not limited, the query rate of the source database increases by about 50 MB/s during full synchronization, and two to four CPUs are occupied.
- The data being synchronized may be locked by other transactions for a long period of time, resulting in read timeout.
- When DRS concurrently reads data from a database, it will use about 6 to 10 sessions. The impact of the connections on services must be considered.
- If you read a table, especially a large table, during the full migration, the exclusive lock on that table may be blocked.
- For more information about the impact of DRS on databases, see What Is the Impact of DRS on Source and Destination Databases?
- Data-Level Comparison
To obtain accurate comparison results, compare data at a specified time point during off-peak hours. If it is needed, select Start at a specified time for Comparison Time. Due to slight time difference and continuous operations on data, data inconsistency may occur, reducing the reliability and validity of the comparison results.
Precautions
Before creating a synchronization task, read the following notes:
- You are advised to create an independent database account for DRS task connection to prevent task failures caused by database account password modification.
- After changing the account passwords for the source or destination databases, modify the connection information in the DRS task as soon as possible to prevent automatic retry after a task failure. Automatic retry will lock the database accounts.
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Procedure
- On the Data Synchronization Management page, click Create Synchronization Task.
- On the Create Synchronization Instance page, select a region and project, specify the task name, description, and the synchronization instance details, and click Create Now.
- Task information description
Figure 1 Synchronization task information
Table 3 Task and recipient description Parameter
Description
Region
The region where the synchronization instance is deployed. You can change the region.
Project
The project corresponds to the current region and can be changed.
Task Name
The task name must start with a letter and consist of 4 to 50 characters. It can contain only letters, digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_).
Description
The description consists of a maximum of 256 characters and cannot contain special characters !=<>'&"\
- Synchronization instance details
Figure 2 Synchronization instance details
Table 4 Synchronization instance settings Parameter
Description
Data Flow
Select To the cloud.
Source DB Engine
Select Oracle.
Destination DB Engine
Select GaussDB Primary/Standby.
Network Type
The public network is used as an example. Available options: VPC, Public network and VPN or Direct Connect
Destination DB Instance
The GaussDB primary/standby instance you created.
Synchronization Instance Subnet
Select the subnet where the synchronization instance is located. You can also click View Subnet to go to the network console to view the subnet where the instance resides.
By default, the DRS instance and the destination DB instance are in the same subnet. You need to select the subnet where the DRS instance resides and ensure that there are available IP addresses. To ensure that the synchronization instance is successfully created, only subnets with DHCP enabled are displayed.
Synchronization Mode
Available options: Full, Incremental, and Full+Incremental.
- Enterprise Projects and Tags
Figure 3 Enterprise projects and tags
Table 5 Enterprise Projects and Tags Parameter
Description
Enterprise Project
An enterprise project you would like to use to centrally manage your Global Accelerator resources. Select an enterprise project from the drop-down list. The default project is default. For more information about enterprise project, see Enterprise Management User Guide.
To customize an enterprise project, click Enterprise in the upper right corner of the console. The Enterprise Management page is displayed. For details, see Creating an Enterprise Project in Enterprise Management User Guide.
Tags
- This setting is optional. Adding tags helps you better identify and manage your tasks. Each task can have up to 10 tags.
- After a task is created, you can view its tag details on the Tags tab. For details, see Tag Management.
If a task fails to be created, DRS retains the task for three days by default. After three days, the task automatically ends.
- Task information description
- On the Configure Source and Destination Databases page, specify source and destination database information and click Test Connection for both the source and destination databases to check whether they have been connected to the synchronization instance. After the connection tests are successful, click Next.
Figure 4 Source database information
Table 6 Source database settings Parameter
Description
IP Address or Domain Name
The IP address or domain name of the source database.
NOTE:For a RAC cluster, use a Scan IP address to improve access performance.
Port
The port of the source database. Range: 1 – 65535
Database Service Name
Enter a database service name (Service Name/SID). The client can connect to the Oracle database through the database service name. For details about how to query the database service name, see the prompt on the GUI.
PDB Name
Container database (CDB) and pluggable database (PDB) are new features in Oracle 12c and later versions. This function is optional, but it must be enabled if you want to migrate only PDB tables.
Enter the service name, SID, username, and password of the CDB that contains the PDB tables to be migrated.
Database Username
The username for accessing the source database.
Database Password
The password for the database username.
SSL Connection
SSL encrypts the connections between the source and destination databases. If SSL is enabled, upload the SSL CA root certificate.
NOTE:- The maximum size of a single certificate file that can be uploaded is 500 KB.
- If SSL is not enabled, your data may be at risk.
Figure 5 Destination database information
Table 7 Destination database settings Parameter
Description
DB Instance Name
The GaussDB primary/standby instance selected during synchronization task creation. This parameter cannot be changed.
Database Username
The username for accessing the destination database.
Database Password
The password for the database username. The database username and password are encrypted and stored in the system and will be cleared after the task is deleted.
- On the Set Synchronization Task page, select the synchronization object, enter the name of the destination database, and click Next.
Figure 6 Synchronization mode
Table 8 Synchronization Object Parameter
Description
Flow Control
You can choose whether to control the flow.
- Yes
You can customize the maximum migration speed.
In addition, you can set the time range based on your service requirements. The traffic rate setting usually includes setting of a rate limiting time period and a traffic rate value. Flow can be controlled all day or during specific time ranges. The default value is All day. A maximum of three time ranges can be set, and they cannot overlap.
The flow rate must be set based on the service scenario and cannot exceed 9,999 MB/s.
Figure 7 Flow control
- No
The synchronization speed is not limited and the outbound bandwidth of the source database is maximally used, which will increase the read burden on the source database. For example, if the outbound bandwidth of the source database is 100 MB/s and 80% bandwidth is used, the I/O consumption on the source database is 80 MB/s.NOTE:
- The flow control mode takes effect only in the full synchronization phase.
- You can also change the flow control mode after creating a task. For details, see Modifying the Flow Control Mode.
Synchronization Object
The left pane displays the source database objects, and the right pane displays the selected objects. You can select Tables, Import object file, or Databases for Synchronization Object as required.
- If the synchronization objects in source and destination databases have different names, you can map the source object name to the destination one. For details, see Mapping Object Names.
- For details about how to import an object file, see Importing Synchronization Objects.
NOTE:- To quickly select the desired database objects, you can use the search function.
- If there are changes made to the source databases or objects, click in the upper right corner to update the objects to be synchronized.
- If the object name contains spaces, the spaces before and after the object name are not displayed. If there are multiple spaces between the object name and the object name, only one space is displayed.
- The name of the selected synchronization object cannot contain spaces.
- Yes
- On the Advanced Settings page, view the parameters you set for full synchronization or incremental synchronization in 2. The default parameter values cannot be modified. Click Next.
Figure 8 Full synchronization
Figure 9 Incremental synchronization
Table 10 Incremental synchronization settings Parameter
Description
Default Value
Concurrent Log Capture Tasks
The number of concurrent threads for reading Oracle logs. The value ranges from 1 to 16.
1
Capture Start Point
Specifies the SCN for starting the capture. SCNs are designed to meet service requirements. It consists of a start SCN for capturing and a valid SCN. For details, see the SCN concepts of Oracle.
If this parameter is left blank, the current SCN of the database is used as the start point by default.
Concurrent Replay Tasks
The number of concurrent threads for writing data to the destination database. The value ranges from 1 to 64.
64
Replay Policy
- Automated
After the task is started, the replay component is started automatically.
- Manual
After a task is started, the replay component needs to be started manually.
Auto
Conflict Policy
Overwrite
Replay Start Point
Specifies the SCN where the replay starts.
If this parameter is not specified, the replay start point is the same as the capture start point by default.
- Automated
- On the Process Data page, set the filtering rules for data processing.
- If data processing is not required, click Next.
- If you need process columns or filter out data, set the corresponding rules by referring to Processing Data.
Figure 10 Processing data
- On the Check Task page, check the synchronization task.
- If any check fails, review the cause and rectify the fault. After the fault is rectified, click Check Again.
For details about how to handle check failures, see Checking Whether the Source Database Is Connected in Data Replication Service User Guide.
- If all check items are successful, click Next.
Figure 11 Pre-check
You can proceed to the next step only when all checks are successful. If there are any items that require confirmation, view and confirm the details first before proceeding to the next step.
- If any check fails, review the cause and rectify the fault. After the fault is rectified, click Check Again.
- On the displayed page, specify Start Time, Send Notification, SMN Topic, Synchronization Delay Threshold, and Stop Abnormal Tasks After, confirm that the configured information is correct, select the check box before the agreement, and click Submit to submit the task.
Figure 12 Task startup settings
Table 11 Task startup settings Parameter
Description
Started Time
Set Start Time to Start upon task creation or Start at a specified time based on site requirements.
NOTE:After a synchronization task is started, the performance of the source and destination databases may be affected. You are advised to start a synchronization task during off-peak hours.
Send Notifications
SMN topic. This parameter is optional. If an exception occurs during synchronization, the system will send a notification to the specified recipients.
SMN Topic
This parameter is available only after you enable Send Notifications and create a topic on the SMN console and add a subscriber.
For details, see Simple Message Notification User Guide.
Synchronization Delay Threshold
During an incremental synchronization, a synchronization delay indicates a time difference (in seconds) of synchronization between the source and destination database.
If the synchronization delay exceeds the threshold you specify, DRS will send alarms to the specified recipients. The value ranges from 0 to 3,600. To avoid repeated alarms caused by the fluctuation of delay, an alarm is sent only after the delay has exceeded the threshold for six minutes.
NOTE:- If the delay threshold is set to 0, no notifications will be sent to the recipient.
- In the early stages of an incremental synchronization, the synchronization delay is long because a large quantity of data is awaiting synchronization. In this case, no notifications will be sent.
- Before setting the delay threshold, enable Send Notification.
Stop Abnormal Tasks After
Number of days after which an abnormal task is automatically stopped. The value must range from 14 to 100. The default value is 14.
NOTE:Tasks in the abnormal state are still charged. If tasks remain in the abnormal state for a long time, they cannot be resumed. Abnormal tasks run longer than the period you set (unit: day) will automatically stop to avoid unnecessary fees.
- After the task is submitted, you can view and manage it on the Data Synchronization Management page.
- You can view the task status. For more information about task status, see Task Statuses.
- You can click in the upper-right corner to view the latest task status.
- By default, DRS retains a task in the Configuration state for three days. After three days, DRS automatically deletes background resources, and the task status remains unchanged. When you restart the task configuration, DRS applies for resources again.
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